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Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.

Ben, how are you?

Thank you for being with us.

This took a minute. Yeah, a little technical difficulty, but we're here to go. Ready to go. Let's do it. All right. Before we start the show, I'm excited to announce that we're in Charlotte, okay? We have seven people, eight people there. But we want to go bigger. We were there last week to scope out some new office space and we found a sweet unit. Is that the right term? Unit? I don't think so.

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